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Himmler's Cavalry: The Equestrian SS, 1930 - 1945
Paul J. Wilson
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Description for Himmler's Cavalry: The Equestrian SS, 1930 - 1945
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler’s horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force designed to win elite support, to enhance social prestige, and to attract farmers to Himmler’s essentially urban organization. The Equestrian SS was the only SS organization acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials. Yet the Equestrian SS trained to be a security and occupation force. In mounted Death’s Head regiments in Poland and in the SS Cavalry Brigade in Russia, Equestrian SS personnel fulfilled ... Read more
Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler’s horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force designed to win elite support, to enhance social prestige, and to attract farmers to Himmler’s essentially urban organization. The Equestrian SS was the only SS organization acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials. Yet the Equestrian SS trained to be a security and occupation force. In mounted Death’s Head regiments in Poland and in the SS Cavalry Brigade in Russia, Equestrian SS personnel fulfilled ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764311123
SKU
V9780764311123
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